September 22, 2014

AQIM Heeds ISIS Call Kidnaps French Citizen

French tourist was kidnapped on Monday in northern Algeria, Al Hadath television and news agencies reported, hours after the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) urged its followers to attack citizens of France and other countries who joined a military campaign against it.

The man, aged 55, was seized by on Sunday evening as he was trekking in the Tizi Ouzou region of Kabylie, where al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb has carried out deadly attacks this year.